Mental Health Studies/ Healthcare Studies

Entry requirements

We welcome your application regardless of your background or experience.

For this course, ideally, we are looking for:

• An honours degree (2:2 or above) in any discipline
• Two years experience in the mental health or substance use field if holding a professional qualification in nursing, social work or an allied discipline.

Months of entry

September

Course content

This unique course is designed for you if you work in mental health, health or social care services. It will build on you current knowledge and experience and help you develop mental health-related skills and knowledge. This course will help you to contribute to the enhancement of professional mental health practice, research and service development.

You'll have the opportunity to study with others from a wide range of mental health, health and social care settings and backgrounds. We hope that the diversity of this environment stimulates your learning and leads to improved practice and service development.

This MSc will allow you to plan your own individual study pathway to meet your personal, professional, academic and service needs. Furthermore, the optional modules can be taken at your own pace, taking into account issues such as your location and work-life balance. As such, most modules are taught online or via distance learning, with some on-campus session for specialised skills.

The best way to study this course is over two years. This means you can continue working in clinical practice and use that practice to help you complete your assignments for your chosen modules. We model a wide range of teaching strategies and approaches on the course which you can adapt to your own setting.

Although we have an October start, depending on which modules you choose, your class dates may be in January. We can discuss this with you when you start the course and choose the modules you want to undertake.

This course is delivered mostly online with some on-campus session depending on the optional modules.

Please note: This course does not lead to registration as a mental health nurse or other mental health practitioner. Applicants wishing to undertake a professional nursing programme, please visit our nursing pages.

What you will gain

By joining us on this course, you'll have the opportunity to:

• Become part of a university which is highly rated by our students for our student support, which often helps those with non-traditional qualifications reach their potential
• Learn in state-of-the-art facilities, including a well-resourced library and access to a wide range of mental health-related e-books and journals
• Make valuable connections through our established relationships with London's leading mental health trusts
• Network with a wide range of clinicians from a variety of backgrounds, both nationally and internationally.

Fees and funding